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Like 50 2T / Re: Engine bogs down and almost stalls when turning the throttle
« on: May 26, 2015, 07:25:52 PM »
Thanks for the additional info. Actually, the battery is toast. I put the trickle charger on it for a day and a half and finally got a warning light on the charger that there is a problem with the battery. I was planning on picking one up yesterday, just didn't make it. I've just been hooking jumper cables up to my car.

I'll go grab one and getting it charging before I pull the carb again.

Thanks again.

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Like 50 2T / Re: Engine bogs down and almost stalls when turning the throttle
« on: May 25, 2015, 09:00:23 PM »
Thanks for the feedback. I presumed I'd be taking it apart again unfortunately. I meant to say in my post that I blew everything out with carb cleaner and was pretty comfortable with how well I got all the ports and jets to get cleaner to flow through them but since my only other real recourse is to take it to a shop, I'll pull the carb and go through it one more time.

How reliable are the electronic auto chokes? I did see a youtube video of a guy doing a carb cleaning and he mentioned putting a manual choke on his. I'm pretty good about taking stuff apart and putting it together but I am far from a motor head so any help is appreciated.

I'll have to find that video again, it showed which of the two jets inside were which. I'll tear it completely apart and go through it again but will make sure I spend extra time on the idle jet.

Thanks

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Like 50 2T / Engine bogs down and almost stalls when turning the throttle
« on: May 25, 2015, 07:35:33 PM »
OK, so after I figured out the auto cock gas flow issue and got the scooter to fire right up, which it will still do, when I give it gas, even after it idling / reving for 5+ minutes, when I turn the throttle it will rev up briefly then start to bog down. Even trying to feather the throttle, I can't get it to stay at high rpm's.

I had just had the carb off and completely apart, blew out every port and pulled the jets and blew them out in both directions. I pulled the spark plug and cleaned and rechecked the gap. I'm sure everyone will say carb, which it probably is but has anyone else had this problem and able to fix it?

I'm not sure if there is a way to check if the choke is working, if that might be what is causing the problem.

Any help is appreciated.

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Like 50 2T / Re: No gas flowing from tank to filter, tank and strainer in tank are clean.
« on: May 25, 2015, 11:50:05 AM »
After finding a better parts list on one of the other 50's, don't remember which but I know I couldn't really find anything useful on the Like, I found that what was connected to the bottom of the tank was called an "auto cock". a quick search on how they function led me to them being suction controlled so blowing air in was not going to do anything. I pulled the line off again, hooked a syringe to it and created a vacuum and gas started flowing. I opened the drain screw on the carb bowl and gas was flowing. hooked up some jumper cables since the battery wasn't charged enough yet and the scooter fired right up.

Now for the reassembly and testing.

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Like 50 2T / No gas flowing from tank to filter, tank and strainer in tank are clean.
« on: May 23, 2015, 09:10:12 PM »
Hello,
My 2011 Kymco Like 50 wouldn't start last year so I didn't really screw around with it anymore. Up to then, it had always run fine. I presumed it was the carburetor. I finally got around to taking the carb off and cleaning it all out. I noticed when I took that bowl off very little gas came out. Smarter thing would have been to check the gas flow to the carb last year but missed that boat.

I took the clamp off the gas line I had removed from the carb and no gas. I pulled the line off the input to the inline filter and no gas. I can see in the tank and there is still about the 1/4 of a tank. I pulled the fuel level float out which is right above the screener in the tank and the gas is just above the top of it. I can blow air back into the line I pulled off the inline filter and see it bubbling around the screen. I'm just not sure why it won't flow out.

I tried to find a diagram of what is inside the part that is mounted to the bottom of the tank that the gas lines are hooked to. There is one line that comes out and goes to the filter then to the input of the carb. there is also a second line that comes out of the bottom of that piece that mounts to the bottom of the tank that feeds down to a nipple on the pipe that the carb connects to. I tried to blow air in it but it would not go. I'm not sure if it is supposed to create a vacuum and allow the gas to flow but if there is no gas flowing or sitting in the carb it will never start.

Any help?
Thanks.

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